Karl Kropf
Biographic Data
| ID | 6599595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karl Kropf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karl |
| FAMILY NAME | Kropf |
| SIGNATURE | KROPF K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Plots, formalism and the limits of the minimal
Plots, property and behaviour
There is a lack of clarity in urban morphology in the use of the terms ‘plot’ and ‘lot’. The complications arise in large part because these terms are used to refer to several things. Further ambiguities arise because the concept of property is not univocal, and the boundaries corresponding to the different meanings of plot do not necessarily coincide. An attendant problem is that distinct aspects of urban form are conflated into a single, ill-de…
The normative impulse K. Kropf
Consolidating urban morphology as a discipline K. Kropf
Ambiguity in the definition of built form
A detailed critical analysis of the definitions of built form as used in urban morphology is reported. The overarching aim of the analysis was to establish a common reference point for examination of the different aspects of urban form in a given case and comparative study of cases from different times and places. Seminal works are examined in detail, in particular those of M. R. G. Conzen, Gianfranco Caniggia and Gian Luigi Maffei. The starting …
Italian urban morphology
Aspects of urban form
The diversity and complexity of human settlements is reflected in the range of ways we try to understand them. The richness of subject matter presented by cities has given rise to an equal richness in methods of investigation. Even within a single field such as urban morphology, there are different approaches with different terms of reference. The challenge raised by the diversity is not how to select between the different views but how to combin…
Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf
Viewpoints of [Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf]
Conceptions of change in the built environment
This paper starts from the premise that urban morphology and process typology make use of a number of different, more or less explicit, quasi-evolutionary conceptions of change. The principal argument of the paper is that the evolutionary conceptions of change as used in these fields could be made more explicit, robust and broadly applicable if they were abstracted and broken free of specific historical periods and sequences. In particular the pa…
An alternative approach to zoning in France
The paper describes an approach to development control taken in France, bringing together the zoning system of planning and geographical and architectural studies of urban form. The approach addresses a number of issues, in particular the maintenance of the historical and regional character of towns, often eroded under systems of land‐use zoning. The principles and methods of the approach are set out and its application is illustrated by an examp…
Aspects of urban form
The diversity and complexity of human settlements is reflected in the range of ways we try to understand them. The richness of subject matter presented by cities has given rise to an equal richness in methods of investigation. Even within a single field such as urban morphology, there are different approaches with different terms of reference. The challenge raised by the diversity is not how to select between the different views but how to combin…
Ambiguity in the definition of built form
A detailed critical analysis of the definitions of built form as used in urban morphology is reported. The overarching aim of the analysis was to establish a common reference point for examination of the different aspects of urban form in a given case and comparative study of cases from different times and places. Seminal works are examined in detail, in particular those of M. R. G. Conzen, Gianfranco Caniggia and Gian Luigi Maffei. The starting …
Conceptions of change in the built environment
This paper starts from the premise that urban morphology and process typology make use of a number of different, more or less explicit, quasi-evolutionary conceptions of change. The principal argument of the paper is that the evolutionary conceptions of change as used in these fields could be made more explicit, robust and broadly applicable if they were abstracted and broken free of specific historical periods and sequences. In particular the pa…
Plots, property and behaviour
There is a lack of clarity in urban morphology in the use of the terms ‘plot’ and ‘lot’. The complications arise in large part because these terms are used to refer to several things. Further ambiguities arise because the concept of property is not univocal, and the boundaries corresponding to the different meanings of plot do not necessarily coincide. An attendant problem is that distinct aspects of urban form are conflated into a single, ill-de…
Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf
Viewpoints of [Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf]
An alternative approach to zoning in France
The paper describes an approach to development control taken in France, bringing together the zoning system of planning and geographical and architectural studies of urban form. The approach addresses a number of issues, in particular the maintenance of the historical and regional character of towns, often eroded under systems of land‐use zoning. The principles and methods of the approach are set out and its application is illustrated by an examp…
Conceptions of change in the built environment
This paper starts from the premise that urban morphology and process typology make use of a number of different, more or less explicit, quasi-evolutionary conceptions of change. The principal argument of the paper is that the evolutionary conceptions of change as used in these fields could be made more explicit, robust and broadly applicable if they were abstracted and broken free of specific historical periods and sequences. In particular the pa…
Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf
Viewpoints of [Crisis in the typological process and the language of innovation and tradition K.S. Kropf]
Aspects of urban form
The diversity and complexity of human settlements is reflected in the range of ways we try to understand them. The richness of subject matter presented by cities has given rise to an equal richness in methods of investigation. Even within a single field such as urban morphology, there are different approaches with different terms of reference. The challenge raised by the diversity is not how to select between the different views but how to combin…
Italian urban morphology
Ambiguity in the definition of built form
A detailed critical analysis of the definitions of built form as used in urban morphology is reported. The overarching aim of the analysis was to establish a common reference point for examination of the different aspects of urban form in a given case and comparative study of cases from different times and places. Seminal works are examined in detail, in particular those of M. R. G. Conzen, Gianfranco Caniggia and Gian Luigi Maffei. The starting …
Consolidating urban morphology as a discipline K. Kropf
The normative impulse K. Kropf
Plots, property and behaviour
There is a lack of clarity in urban morphology in the use of the terms ‘plot’ and ‘lot’. The complications arise in large part because these terms are used to refer to several things. Further ambiguities arise because the concept of property is not univocal, and the boundaries corresponding to the different meanings of plot do not necessarily coincide. An attendant problem is that distinct aspects of urban form are conflated into a single, ill-de…
Plots, formalism and the limits of the minimal
Geography (8 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Civil engineering (3 works) · Economic geography (3 works) · Morphology (biology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)